Wild Rose Blooming - Missoula, Montana

"Wild roses are fairest, 
and nature a better gardener than art." 

- Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

On Memorial Day - Missoula, Montana

"137* years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy." 

-  Doc Hastings

(*Now 148 years later, according to this site's history of the day.)

Cottonwood Fluff At Rest - Missoula, Montana

In between the spring rain showers, cottonwood fluff is flying furiously, careening crazily on windy gusts, captured in foliage traps to rest and perhaps take root.

Parking Lot Sarcasm - Missoula, Montana

Definitely on The Dark Side...but - the sad truth - it absolutely made me laugh.

Sunset Or Poem - Missoula, Montana

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem." 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Essay ll, Experience 

Perspective On Pinks - Missoula, Montana

"The task is...not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”

- Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)

Storm-Kissed Peace - East Missoula, Montana

“There is peace even in the storm”

― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Progressing - Missoula, Montana

"The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”

- Chuck Palahniuk